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To see or to see again: in The Spy Who Loved Me, James Bond presses Relaxation

2020-03-25T05:48:28.437Z


The third mission of Roger Moore associates for the first time a Soviet spy, sublime Barbara Bach, and the best agent of Her Majesty. The film can be downloaded from Orange or Canal VOD platforms.


A Soviet spy more gironde and bewitching than ever, a giant with steel teeth and finally, a Roger Moore donning the James Bond tuxedo as a worthy successor to Sean Connery ... In The Spy Who Loved Me ( The Spy Who Loved Me ), in 1977, for his third mission, the aristocratic adventurer of Amicalement Vôtre , under the intelligent direction of Lewis Gilbert, gets rid of his stigma of serial heroes to give bondophiles what they expect above all. Or a spectacular spy story, even preposterous, as long as they make them dream.

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In 1976, after three or four relatively disappointing films, Eon productions - that is to say Albert Broccoli alone, without his duettist Harry Saltzman who, in debt, had to leave the Bondian ship -, must return to the fundamentals of 007 ( Doctor No , Goldfinger , etc.).

To make the box office vibrate again, the producer decides to entrust the reins of the production to a seasoned filmmaker. The lucky winner is named Lewis Gilbert. He has already, and it is not nothing, directed One lives only twice . Confident, he will apply to the letter the rules that govern the triumphs of spy films: action, glamor, dreams. He adds a touch of geopolitics, well in tune with the times, East-West relaxation.

To compose and succeed in this scriptwriting cocktail, the director first chooses sets, natural, of sumptuous beauty. With the pyramids of Giza, the temple of Luxor, Sardinia ... the spectator can thus offer himself, without moving from his chair, the seven wonders of the world.

The staging must be in terms of these magnificences and will obviously require a choice of quality actors. The role of Major Anya Amasova, triple-X agent, is assigned to Barbara Bach. The actress must not only be beautiful in damning a saint - which she is -, but she must also be very convincing in this character of Bond girl, Russian and Communist, able to hold the dragee high to the agent 007 The future Mrs. Ringo Starr, perfectly at the height of her task, definitively closes the era of women-objects, in swoon before the irresistible James, which characterized the first adaptations of the novels of Ian Fleming.

Shark, the horrific and friendly giant

But Lewis Gilbert's cleverest find is finding a villain capable of competing in muscle and humor with Roger Moore. The filmmaker, by choosing Richard Kiel, an American actor of two and twenty meters, to serve as a henchman for the megalomaniac on duty Karl Stromberg (Curd Jürgens) achieves a real feat. Dressed in the nickname of Shark (a barely veiled allusion to the Teeth of the Sea by Steven Spielberg who has just devoured the world box office), the hitman terrifies as much as he makes him smile. Become an essential character of the Bondian saga, the giant with the steel teeth will return a few years later in Moonraker to, against all expectations, switch to the camp of good.

James Bond (Roger Moore) electrocutes the steel teeth of Shark (Richard Kiel) in The Spy Who Loved Me. Leemage

As Jean Gabin liked to repeat: "A good film is firstly a story, secondly a story and thirdly a story." The director will not look far for the fabric of his inspiration. The Spy Who Loved Me Looks Like a Remake of ' We Only Live Twice He Directed in 1967. All the ingredients for a James Bond are already there: mind-blowing gadgets (the Lotus submarine is the highlight), Dantesque explosions, nuclear plot ... Lewis Gilbert brings him only one innovation, but of size. For the first time, Relaxation obliges, the Americans and the Russians are working together to save the world ... The Berlin Wall will collapse twelve years later.

The Orange or Canal VOD platforms allow you to see or re-watch The Spy Who Loved Me. But as an appetizer Le Figaro presents, below in pictures, the trailer for the film.

The Spy Who Loved Me by Lewis Gilbert in 1977 with Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Richard Kiel, Curd Jurgens ...

Source: lefigaro

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